• SpinMeAround
    19·
    2 hours ago

    Said goodbye to Toby this morning. What a fantastic little dude he was.

  • Eagle
    13·
    2 hours ago

    Fluffy boy, complete with grinch feet

  • Eagle
    12·
    2 hours ago

    And the beauty of the house… complete with ginger stalker

  • Bottom_racer
    7·
    2 hours ago

    Went out for dins last night with fam + SIL. Nice place AUGELLO’S in balwyn. Place was packed and the staff did an incredible job managing that. Good pizza!

    But turns out bro and SIL are trump supporters which came as a shock to the rest of us.

    Back in the day around the kitchen table we’d get into heated arguments about Labor/LNP. Old man is heavy rusted on LNP (as in he’d leave the room if people we shitting on their policy setting). He just sat there in disbelief.

    But this didn’t turn into an argument. Just the sound of eyebrows being raised.

    Everyone is entitled to their views… but yeah… wow. They’re well educated aswell.

    I’m not really the type to get upset with views but their views on the rona and now this definitely makes it difficult to think any better of them.

    • just_kitten
      3·
      2 hours ago

      As a total outsider just based on what you’ve described about your bro and SIL over the last year or two… I am not surprised that they are Trump supporters. Selfishness is often correlated with that category of people. I’m so sorry you got another blow to your relationship with them…

      • Bottom_racer
        2·
        1 hour ago

        It’s a shame. Would be nice to get that back on track (and see bboi butters more often) but yeah :(

        • just_kitten
          2·
          1 hour ago

          We need to find a way for you to get permanent custody of bboi butterz. Such a handsome gentleman is wasted on those ungrateful people.

    • NathA
      1·
      55 minutes ago

      I was surprised to learn that a few people at work were happy with yesterday’s result also. Not in a ‘good for them’ kind of way (which is how I’d have been had the result been different), but in a more direct good for us kind of way. One person even pulled out one of those red and white hats. I have never seen one in Australia before.

      These are smart people. I have previously dismissed most of the Republican supporters as uninformed and uneducated. It’s easy to just assume that anyone voting for the guy has no idea what they’re doing.

      I still don’t get why anyone in Australia is that invested in US politics. But I’m reassessing my previous notions that the Republican party is as successful as it is because they have convinced dumb people to vote for them.

      • Rusty Raven M
        1·
        36 minutes ago

        I think it is not so much dumb people as the selfish entitled people - the sort that are always looking disaprovingly at anybody who is getting anything they are not - and that is a huge demographic. The sort of people who get their nose out of joint at everything from someone taking more food at the buffet to people receiving welfare benefits (or even disability or workcover claims). It also flows over into everyone who thinks that it is unfair if anyone who is female/foreign/gay etc. has something they don’t, and assume it is being unfairly taken away from them.

        There is probably a correlation between that and dumb, but there is also a sizeable group who recognise that the Republican plan will increase inequality and believe they will come out on top in that situation. Trump and his cronies lining their own pockets will help a lot of other rich and unscrupulous people do the same.

    • tombruzzo
      1·
      17 minutes ago

      Are they small business owners? My most charitable take would be they can see what’s of economic benefit to them because everything else about Trump’s platform wouldn’t directly affect them

  • melbaboutown
    12·
    3 hours ago

    The anxiety lately is quite bad. 😵‍💫

    I need me a nap like this

    Melbcat

  • GibsonhasafluffybuttEnglish
    8·
    2 hours ago

    I just had that moment where a cat gets stuck with a plastic bag somehow wrapped around them, and they shamefully come to you for help.

    Poor thing. But also, adorable lol

  • TinyBreak
    16·
    4 hours ago

    Just wanted to thank everyone for their rather raw sharing of feelings yesterday. I realized late last night what my biggest fear was: that something so obvious to me wasn’t obvious to a majority of people. It was rather isolating and sobering. upon reflection, ya’ll sharing your shock or grief or whatever helped a LOT. So thank you.

    • Duenan
      6·
      3 hours ago

      Just take one day at a time and the chance to focus on other things.

      While it’s half a world away it hit me harder than I thought as well.

      Treat yourself and make yourself feel better.

    • StudSpud The StarchyEnglish
      12·
      4 hours ago

      I still feel raw and upset tbh, like a horrible heavy weight sitting in my lower abdomen.

      I don’t know how to get away from all the terrible news to come over the next 4 years. But I think I might start by actually following through and deleting the other place, and then just focusing purely on my own life and this place here lol

      You always have a space to commiserate and find company here, this is a bastion.